The Pahiatua Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1942 DRAW YOUR BLINDS—7.3O p.m. VICTORY IN SIGHT.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXI, Issue 15211, 28 November 1942, Page 2

The Pahiatua Herald. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1942 DRAW YOUR BLINDS—7.3O p.m. VICTORY IN SIGHT.

11l speaking to the naton of the spectacular successes of the armies of the United Nations in the African campaigns, Mr Winston Churchill said that ho would describe the present phase of the wai as the end of the beginning rather than the beginning of the end. .Together : with the leaders oi the other Unit- ' ed Nations the British Prime Minister has emphasised the for midable task which lies ahead. Vet it is pleasing to survey the gener it j improvement in the war situation J as it affects almost every theatre I of hostilities. The Russian scene 1 brightens daily and with the con- | tinued prosecution of the enormous j Soviet offensive, Hitler, will be fao- j ed with what he has always ieared [ —a major war on two fronts. Con- j centratiom of jxiwer at_ oiue point | with the resultant subjugation of one enemy at a time has been the j keynote of the Nazi success to date j The acquisition ot tremendous re sources throughout the length and j breadth of Europe may have mini- j mi&ed the Fuhrer’s fears but the dissipation of his enormous strength in the ill-timed Russian aggression has weakened Germany so severely that the formidable assaults in North Africa at a tim e and in places least expected have required a spreading of his depleted forces that must inevitably make impossible a continuance of the accepted Nazi policy of concentrated effort. Air power must come into the picture to a greater extent in the present ciscumstances and it gives rise to optimism to contemplate the chances ol the respective belligerents in the battle for supremacy m the air. On the one hand we iiave the Luftwaffe, whose invincibility began to wane from the days of the Hattie of Britain and reinforcements and replacements for which have been drastically curbed by the sustained and tremendous destruction of their sources of supply by th© raids of the Royal Air Force over a long period. On the other hand we have the enormously exof the United Nations whose ]>eak production has not yet been reached and is not <oiisrained by the ruthless hammering of the centres of manufacture. All the signs of collapse are visible in Italy whose value to the Axis partnership has progressively diminished until the Nazis have seen fit to take almost complete control of the Italian defences. On the other side of the world the cause for optimism is no less coi> vinemg. The southward drive of Nippon was stopped some moutfts ago and despite the stubborn determination of the Japanese, all efforts to retrieve their position have been held, culminating in a tremendously heavy nayal defeat in the Solomons. Elsewhere in the Pacific the outlook is no less encouraging. With due regard to the grave warnings of the Allied leaders, we may well conclude that decisive victory is undoubtedly in sight.